While accessing AMG - the All Music Guide, I suddenly saw this message:

"Through traffic monitoring of our websites we have identified your IP address accessing our website(s) at a rate and speed inconsistent with the noncommercial and personal use permitted by our site's Terms of Use. As a result, access to allmusic.com, allmovie.com and allgame.com has been denied.

"If you feel you have been denied access in error, please contact All Media Guide at webaccess@allmediaguide.com. Please include your name, company, IP address, and technical contact, if applicable, in your response. Thank you."

As I harvest songs for DigiTrad, I have been using AMG to verify song titles, composers, performers, album titles, publication dates, etc. for the notes that appear at the ends of songs. I find it VERY useful for this purpose. I was doing this when the message appeared.

Curiously, the message appeared only once, and I have continued to use AMG without further obstruction afterwards. I haven't replied to their message - yet - but I may. I'm wondering what other Mudcatters think of this, and what I should reply.